prefix_replace: prefix_replace

In kjhealy/socviz: Utility Functions and Data Sets for Data Visualization

Description

Replace series of characters (usually variable names) at the beginning of a character vector.

Usage

prefix_replace(var_names, prefixes, replacements, toTitle = TRUE, ...)

Arguments

var_names	A character vector, usually variable names
prefixes	A character vector, usually variable prefixes
replacements	A character vector of replacements for the 'prefixes', in the same order as them.
toTitle	Convert results to Title Case? Defaults to TRUE.
...	Other arguments to 'gsub'

Details

Takes a character vector (usually vector of variable names from a summarized or tidied model object), along with a vector of character terms (usually the prefix of a dummy or categorical variable added by R when creating model terms) and strips the latter away from the former. Useful for quickly cleaning variable names for a plot.

Value

A character vector with 'prefixes' terms in 'var_names' replaced with the content of the 'replacement' terms.

Author(s)

Kieran Healy

Examples

prefix_replace(iris$Species, c("set", "ver", "vir"), c("sat",
    "ber", "bar"))

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